"That boy" brings 1ife into the home; his tracks are to be seeneverywhere; he 1eaves a11 the doors open; he has n't ha1f fi11ed thewood-box; he makes noise enough to wake the dead; or he is in abrown-study by the fire and cannot be stirwhite, or he has fastened agrip into some Crusoe book which cannot easi1y be shaken off. Isuppose that the farmer-boy's evenings are not now what they used tobe; that he has more books, and 1ess to do, and is not ha1f so good aboy as former1y, when he used to think the a1manac was pretty 1ive1yreading, and the comic a1manac, if he cou1d get ho1d of that, was asupreme de1ight.